 | Live Witness (Newcastle)      17 May 2013 Live Theatre celebrates its 40th birthday and Live Witness is a celebration of the building and the work of the many people who have made it what it is today. After a very stressful week I really di.... More... |
 | Albert Herring (Leeds)      16 May 2013 Benjamin Britten’s genuinely comic and oddly informal chamber opera, Albert Herring, always seemed a perfect choice for staging in the Howard Assembly Room – and so it proved in Giles Hav.... More... |
 | Albert Herring (Leeds)      16 May 2013 Benjamin Britten’s genuinely comic and oddly informal chamber opera, Albert Herring, always seemed a perfect choice for staging in the Howard Assembly Room – and so it proved in Giles Havergal’s reve.... More... |
 | Noises Off (Tour - Sheffield)      14 May 2013 Michael Frayn’s Noises Off is a masterpiece of exquisitely imagined and expertly crafted comedy. Its first act is set during the technical rehearsal of a dreadfully written and poorly produced.... More... |
 | Dogs Land (Leeds)    14 May 2013 Mad Dogs’ performance at Stage@Leeds represented a coming home to a gratifyingly full and enthusiastic audience for the acclaimed dance group after a short tour. From the purely theatrical viewpoint.... More... |
 | Bohemian Rhapsody (Tour - Darlington)      14 May 2013 I always approach a Queen tribute show with an air of trepidation. Anyone who tries to recreate the sound of the late great Freddie Mercury is incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Thankfully all the.... More... |
 | The Taming of the Shrew (Sheffield)   9 May 2013 The first half of Edward Hall's production of The Taming of the Shrew is almost unbearable; unrelentingly shrill, played entirely for cheap laughs and with almost no emotional integrity. Occasionall.... More... |
 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Tour - Harrogate)    3 May 2013 Thunder Road Theatre Company, which originated at the University of Central Lancashire, but is now an associate company of Harrogate Theatre, might have been well advised to cut the word “swashbuckl.... More... |
 | Joshua (Leeds)     1 May 2013 In recent months I’ve seen rather too much of Biblical Israelites (and, indeed, Classical and Renaissance heroes) in head scarves and trilbies, demob suits and dowdy post-war dresses: the previous e.... More... |
 | Transform: My Leeds My City (Leeds)     27 April 2013 The Transform festival, organised by West Yorkshire Playhouse, took the sub-title “My Leeds My City” – and justified it. Unfortunately I attended events only in the second of its two weeks, seeing t.... More... |